Ben Tipple

DIY • 22nd June 2022

Review: MUNA - MUNA

A celebratory expression of queer love that loses none of the trio’s magic.

DIY • 17th June 2022

Live Review: Sky Farreira, Southbank Centre, London

Although she carries herself with the same resignation as the previous weekend’s performance, on stage her art comes to life.

DIY • 15th June 2022

Review: Perfume Genius - Ugly Season

An album in its truest form, a record to sit with and take in as one whole.

DIY • 14th June 2022

Feature: Nova Twins - No Holds Barred

Carving out a singular space in the rock landscape, Amy Love and Georgia South have resolutely done it their way. Now, with the advent of Nova Twins’ ‘Supernova’, their potential feels limitless.

DIY • 8th June 2022

Live Review: Slam Dunk Festival 2022, Hatfield

Rock isn’t dead or alive, it’s changing from the inside out.

Rock Sound • 1st June 2022

Feature: Memphis May Fire - The Shake Up

Memphis May Fire are back, and it feels... familiar. Matty Mullins explains how he and his band wound back the clock, and made some of their most vital work yet.

DIY • 23rd May 2022

Live Review: Charli XCX, Alexandra Palace, London

It’s a blissful evening of true, unadulterated - and yes - cheesy fun.

NME • 18th May 2022

Live Review: James Blake, Alexandra Palace, London

Far from focusing only on his latest album 'Friends That Break Your Heart', this set proves the boy wonder's eclecticism

DIY • 18th May 2022

Review: Charlie Hickey - Nervous At Night

‘Nervous At Night’ places Charlie at a crossroads, largely in-keeping with its coming of age tale.

DIY • 12th May 2022

Review: The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention

It all feels remarkably familiar, but given the record’s pedigree, that’s far from a bad thing.

DIY • 11th May 2022

Review: Ethel Cain - Preacher’s Daughter

Change, escape and identity are not easy things to navigate, and ‘Preacher’s Daughter’ is the dark, unsettling, sprawling beauty that comes out of it.

DIY • 28th April 2022

Review: Let’s Eat Grandma - Two Ribbons

The pair have found the sonic balance between friendship, unity, and individual identity.

DIY • 20th April 2022

Live Review: Florence + The Machine, Theatre Royal, London

Stood barefoot in a flowing white dress and matching cape, intimacy brims through Florence’s exhilaration to be back on the stage.

DIY • 6th April 2022

Review: The Linda Lindas - Growing Up

A record that reaches across the generational divide through both its mastery of sound and the universality of its stories.

Rock Sound • 1st April 2022

Feature: Bob Vylan - Ghost In The Machine

It kind of goes without saying that Bob Vylan's new album 'Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life' is something worth listening to, in absolutely every sense. Here is its story.

DIY • 1st April 2022

Review: Pillow Queens - Leave The Light On

Intimacy is replaced here by an urgent yearning for something bigger.

DIY • 9th March 2022

Review: Jenny Hval - Classic Objects

‘Classic Objects’ walks the line between art and humanity, between nature and fabrication, between the real and the conceptual.

DIY Magazine • 4th March 2022

Review: Nilüfer Yanya - PAINLESS

A true representation of its creator; simultaneously delicate, fierce, vulnerable and fiery.

Rock Sound • 1st March 2022

Feature: PUP - Living In Chaos

In their latest, quite possibly greatest record, PUP have refined everything they are into one huge, chaotic chunk. Here, they tell the album's story.

DIY Magazine • 9th February 2022

Review: Shamir - Heterosexuality

The record bounds between unfaltering self-belief and fundamental pain.